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Hunting. Captures. By species. Provinces

Hunting. Captures. By species. Provinces Catalonia
Small game Mallard Gadwall Northern pintail Northern shoveler Red-crested pochard Eurasian wigeon Woodcock Snipe Rock dove Rabbit Common starling Pheasant Coot Lapwing Magpie Yellow-legged gull Black-headed gull Mistle thrush Fieldfare Common quail Red fox Hare Common pochard Tufted duck Red-legged partridge Grey partridge Redwing Song thrush Turtle dove Woodpigeon Garganey Teal Stock dove Big game Roe deer Wild goat Deer Fallow deer Chamois Mouflon Wild boar
2022 25,645 2,155 1,999 4,492 1,688 1,341 14,894 5,189 36,105 348,256 64,532 14,280 2,114 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 26,632 382 190 8,155 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 18,635 6,328 5,316 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 95,945 94 83,990 379,500 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 160,705 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 5,958 3,007 11,804 138 3,496 1,618 787 780 70,736
2021 21,550 1,742 1,319 2,584 1,196 624 11,871 6,259 34,646 299,395 59,692 13,547 3,053 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 31,645 331 319 5,417 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 21,372 6,266 5,005 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 76,344 92 44,083 289,158 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 193,516 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 3,945 2,070 8,772 89 2,491 1,246 706 588 60,384
2020 26,345 1,657 1,315 3,567 874 759 13,228 5,097 35,578 265,637 70,447 18,558 3,799 585 36,445 512 340 7,399 577 34,724 7,147 5,936 92 0 104,859 142 50,654 327,004 19,898 195,993 144 4,465 2,212 7,931 139 2,712 976 622 340 57,586
2019 22,473 1,252 675 3,376 705 577 13,694 6,964 34,597 209,809 66,560 15,596 4,296 1,164 37,095 668 316 8,639 1,131 23,537 7,018 5,545 312 23 101,194 228 37,067 326,540 22,081 191,355 86 4,894 1,751 6,438 163 2,345 936 718 595 50,000
2018 24,136 1,214 631 3,313 833 646 14,311 7,307 42,074 220,785 78,931 21,159 5,806 1,356 38,939 765 671 10,602 1,317 42,131 10,963 7,229 418 40 106,957 282 47,769 433,266 24,050 208,071 113 5,208 3,340 6,109 596 2,405 1,037 1,688 732 65,351
Source:
2018-2019: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Natural Environment.
2020-2022: Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda.
Notes:
Captures during open, special or migratory game bird season in private hunting areas (APC), local hunting areas (ALC), controlled hunting areas (ZCC), national hunting reserves (RNC) and game reserves (RC).
Valid season captures.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: December 21, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Big game
Large animals, with low annual mortality and high life expectancy. In order to reduce the inevitable competence for growth, these species have a low reproduction rate. The margin for hunting them is lower, as these species do not have a natural capacity to recover their original values prior to each year's hunting season.
Small game
Small animals. Their populations typically have high reproduction rates that also enable them to have high breeding rates. They are some of the species considered to be prey, subjected to predators. Therefore, they can actively respond to severe reductions in number.

Methodological aspects

Hunting is a sport or recreational activity, therefore in order to do it, several aspects must be taken into account, such as the procedures to obtain licences and permits, the places where hunting is permitted, the time of the year it can be done, game species, etc. There is a also a Strategic Plan which aims to define a hunting model that is sustainable within nature and compatible with other territorial activities.

The small all the hunting species of birds and four mammal species: rabbit, European hare, Iberian hare and fox. Due to its abundance and general distribution in all the territory, it is the most common and popular hunting. The number of catches at the end of the season is higher as well, though the regeneration capacity in certain parameters allows the recovery of populations.

In our country, all the big game species belong to the ungulates group, which includes deer (Cervus elaphus), fallow (Dama dama), roe deer (Capreolus sp), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), wild goat (Capra hispanica), wild boar (Sus scrofa) and mouflon (Ovis musimon). Though a wrong management and insufficient conservation made that many of these species disappear at their natural distribution areas, nowadays are model for habitats recovery and right management done in many years of work.

The captures shown in this table are those carried out in private and local hunting areas, controlled hunting areas and national reserves during the hunting season. The season is approved by means of an annual resolution which establishes which species may be hunted, the stipulated hunting periods and the special closures for each season.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".